Azzaro has introduced Chrome Pure, a new flanker to 1996’s Chrome for Men…
Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Floral Shock ~ new fragrance
Yves Saint Laurent has launched Black Opium Floral Shock, a new limited edition fragrance for women. Black Opium Floral Shock is a flanker to 2014’s Black Opium, which was a flanker to 1977’s Opium…
A single drop
The human nose is an incredible instrument with astonishing abilities. For example, in terms of our olfactory detection threshold. There’s an odor we’ve been working with quite a bit, and its detection threshold is 10 to the power of minus 12 moles. And yet you can still smell the difference between a regular Olympic pool and an Olympic pool into which we’ve introduced a single drop of that liquid.
— "That liquid" being sweat. Read more at We base the most important decisions of our lives on smell at Haaretz.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Dark Moon ~ fragrance review
2016 is winding down to its close, and I’ve just tried Dark Moon, this year’s holiday fragrance from indie perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. It’s named for one of the phases of the moon: according to Hurwitz, “The Dark Moon signals a new beginning… This Holiday Season, the New Moon/Dark Moon comes just after the winter solstice and in the northern hemisphere, the darkest day of the year.” So it’s timely, and heaven knows I’ve been eating more than my share of chocolate lately, which makes Dark Moon a perfect pick for my review this week.
Hurwitz describes Dark Moon as a “chocolate chypre” with notes of red wine, dark chocolate, bergamot, spice, jasmine, rose, resins, vanilla, and oak moss. Intrigued? Yes, me too…
Modern Muse Nuit
Kendall Jenner in a quick spot for Estée Lauder Modern Muse Nuit.